2nd Trimester: 16 weeks, 1 day!

Wednesday, the 11th, was my normal appointment with my ob and my husband's first appointment with her too.

It was pretty uneventful, I think he was hoping for an ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby. He's growing pretty antsy to find out..the weeks can't go by fast enough it seems.

The student that was there did the heart doppler and found the heartbeat 150 after a few minutes and guiding from me as to where she needed to go.

I started on insulin last night, I'm taking it once a day at bedtime to work to get my resting blood sugar down. Every 3 days I will increase my units by 2. I started at 5 units which apparently is pretty low.
I will have appointments every 2 weeks instead of 4 weeks until my resting blood sugar is maintained at a level we all like.

I anticipate that we will know the sex by the end of this month. We shall see.

I'm feeling good, my belly continues to grow which is fun and exciting! I'm going to try my friend's belly butter she's been using for her belly (that is stretch mark free by the way!). It's quite spendy, but if I like it, I will splurge..it will be worth not having an itchy belly. :0)

Here's a picture of my belly, I took this morning.

Belly Pictures

I'm not sure why the pictures are posting this way, but here's the timeline!
The 1st picture is 12w3d!
The 2nd picture is 7 w!
The last picture is 14w5d!

May 2nd, 14w5d

Hi there,
I haven't been keeping up with the blog, I know. I have been busy writing in my 5 year memory book and the baby's scrapbook as well. Lots of writing!
Since my first posting, a lot has happened!

Let's see..I'm no longer in my 1st Trimester which is a blessing! I only have nausea when I'm riding in cars..so I try to drive as much as possible. I still have heartburn all day long so I'm thinking the baby will have a lot of hair! :o)

My belly is starting to show..I will post pictures. I'm glad I've been taking the pictures, I honestly didn't think that there would be much difference, but there is!

We went to the appointment that tells us about the baby, his/her chances of being a Down's baby and all was measured within normal limits. Hurray!

I found out that I have gestational diabetes, so I'm doing my best to monitor my blood sugars. However, I think I may be on the road to taking medicine. I am not giving up yet, I have a follow up meeting with my diabetic educator on May 9th who also had gestational diabetes so she may have some tricks to share with me at that time.

I am not as tired, although the 1 nap a day is still pretty consistent for me. Although when I haven't napped, I tend to go to sleep at 8p.

My pregnancy hormones have made me a crazy lady sometimes, but luckily I have a husband who's understanding.

Our next appointment is May 11th, it'll be the first appointment Nate gets to come to. Then 2 weeks after that appointment we will be going to Legacy to find out the sex of the baby! I can't believe it's already almost time to find out! Wahooey!!

Just an FYI..I will probably wait to post until then!